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A Shifting Paradigm of Work-Life Balance in Service Context-An Empirical Study
No full textPurpose: The study examined the effect of various ‘work-life balance’ determinants such as employee benefits, work environment, workload, flextime and discrimination on work culture and job satisfaction. Introduction: In the second half of the last century, tremendous environmental, economic, political, and socio cultural changes contributed to the restructuring of couples in their relation to work. Literature review: Several fundamental changes in family and work structures, such as the participation of women in the workforce, family arrangements that deviate from traditional gender-based roles (e.g. dual-earner couples), and technological changes (e.g. cell phones, portable computers) have reduced the separation between job and family life. Methods: Data were collected from a multinational insurance firm based on structured questionnaire. Conclusion: Results indicated that employee benefits, work environment, flextime, and discrimination were significantly related with job satisfaction. Although work environment and workload were related significantly with work, culture but work culture has no relationship with flextime, and discrimination of the employees. Recommendations: The findings suggest that incorporating these dimensions may render service organization with the potent to improve existing level of performance and job satisfaction.Work culture, job satisfaction, flextime, discrimination, benefits and facilities
FIGURE 1 in Description of a new soft scale insect of the genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from India
No full textFIGURE 1. Life stages of Pulvinaria kalyaniensis Talukder & Das, sp. n. on neem, Azadirachta indica. A. Colony of ovipositing females on the branches; B. Colony of adult females on a branch; C. Close-up view of ovipositing female; D Eggs.; E. Nymphs; F. Sooty mould on the leaves.Published as part of Talukder, Bipradeb & Das, Bijan Kumar, 2021, Description of a new soft scale insect of the genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from India, pp. 434-442 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/459546
Nature and life: essays on deep ecology and applied ethics by Md. Munir Hossain Talukder [Preface]
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Professor Md. Munir Hossain Talukder has published a book, Nature and Life: Essays on Deep Ecology and Applied Ethics (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). He is a philosopher on the faculty at Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His Ph.D. is from the National University of Singapore. He and Holmes Rolston became acquainted when Rolston was a visiting professor there, and Rolston subsequently was a consultant and an examiner for Talukder's Ph.D. thesis. Rolston writes a preface to this book
Evaluation of two methods to measure hemoglobin concentration among women with genetic hemoglobin disorders in Cambodia: a method-comparison study
No full textAbstract not availableCrystal D. Karakochuk, Amynah Janmohamed, Kyly C.Whitfield, SusanI. Barr, Suzanne M. Vercauteren, Hou Kroeun, Aminuzzaman Talukder, Judy McLean, Timothy J. Gree
Spatio-temporal variation of surface soil hydraulic properties under different tillage and maize-based crop sequences in a Mediterranean area
No full textAims: The surface crust formed by the drop impact of rainfall and/or irrigation is a prevalent characteristic in many Mediterranean soils. However, the temporal variation of soil hydraulic properties induced by surface crust during the high-frequency irrigation has rarely been investigated. Methods: Beerkan infiltration tests in conjunction with the BEST method were used to investigate the effects of surface crusting on the spatio-temporal variation of saturated soil hydraulic conductivity (Ks, mm s−1), sorptivity (S, mm s−0.5), mean pore size (r, mm), number of effective pores per unit area (N, m−2) in Agramunt, NE Spain. Results: In response to autumn tillage, intensive tillage (IT) increased Ks and S due to higher r and N, but both declined after 60 days. Reduced tillage (RT), maintained comparable Ks and S values, despite having a lower N value. After the spring tillage, both IT and RT developed crusted layers, resulting in decreased Ks, S and N. Long-term no-tillage (NT) showed an increasing trend of Ks and S over time, except for the last sampling. Spatial variation (i.e., between the rows, B-row vs. within the row of crops, W-row) of Ks and S was found, and non-crusted soils (W-row) had consistently higher Ks and S than crusted soils (B-row). Conclusions: Conservation tillage i.e., RT and NT improve the surface soil structure and reduce the risk of crust development. Surface cover by crops may help to prevent crust formation within the row of crops, improving soil hydraulic conductivity
Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Analysis of Distributional Consequences
No full textThe article analyses the impact of agricultural trade liberalisation on economic growth as well as on the welfare of rural livelihoods in developing countries through technological transformation in the agricultural sector. The article, based on existing literature, considers the background and reasons for the policy shift in developing economies away from agricultural protection and toward trade liberalisation. It attempts to shed light on the debate over the distributional consequences resulting from trade liberalisation. It also analyses how agricultural trade policy reforms affect poverty and inequality, since the majority of the population of developing countries is involved with agriculture, and these households are predominantly rural poor and functionally landless. The study found that trade liberalisation in the agricultural sector has had positive impacts on the agricultural sector but has contributed very little to poverty reduction because of the lack of income distribution and inequality measures in the policy sphere. The article might be useful for policy makers and researchers.agriculture, developing countries, growth, inequality, trade liberalisation, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Agricultural Finance, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Crop Production/Industries, Farm Management, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Development, Labor and Human Capital, Land Economics/Use, Political Economy, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Association between temperature variability and hospitalizations among First Nations Australians in Central Australia
No full textBackground: Little is known about the temperature and health effects of the desert climate in Central Australia, Northern Territory (NT). The objectives of this study are to assess the risks of all-cause and cause-specific hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), infectious diseases (IDs), mental disorders and respiratory diseases (RDs). We also assessed the effect of temperature variability (TV) on hospitalizations amongst First Nations Australians. Methods: Daily hospitalization data from 2010 to 2021 for all-cause and cause-specific conditions from Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, were used. TV was calculated from the standard deviation of the minimum and maximum temperatures for the exposure days. Quasi-Poisson regression model was applied to assess the association between TV and hospitalizations, and by demographic characteristics including First Nations status. Results: A total of 127,755 hospitalizations were recorded. Increased risks of total all-cause, ID, and RD hospitalizations were observed following exposure to TV for a range of hot temperatures but were more consistent for presummer (spring) moderately hot temperatures. Exposure to TV for the previous 6 days (i.e., TV0-5) was associated with an estimated 1.8 % (95 % CI: 0.33 %, 3.29 %) increase in all-cause, 4.94 % (95 % CI: 0.16 %, 9.95 %) increase in ID, and a 4.48 % (95 % CI: 1.47 %, 7.59 %) increase in RD hospitalizations for moderately hot temperatures. In First Nations Australians TV0-4 was associated with an estimated 1.98 % increase (95 % CI, 0.44, 3.55 %) in total hospitalizations. Increased risks of total hospitalizations were also observed among the 45 years age groups and women for different TV exposure days. Overall, 12.7 % (i.e., 16,205 cases) of total hospitalizations were attributed to exposure to TV (TV0-5). Conclusions: With projected climate change, increasing exposure to extreme temperatures in Central Australia is more likely. Therefore, concerted and context-specific adaptation approaches are essential to mitigate temperature-related health effects and address the gap in health outcomes for First Nations peoples.Full Tex
Field evaluation of sensitivity of wheat to high temperature stress near flowering and early grain set
No full textPublished online - no paginationA field study was undertaken at the Waite campus, Adelaide in 2009 to assess the effect of heat stress on four wheat genotypes. Wheat plants were exposed to heat at the green anther stage [Zadoks growth stage (ZGS) 57-59; H1] and at 7-10 days after anthesis (ZGS 73-75; H2). The heat treatment was applied on a single day in a purpose-built (1.5 x 0.5 m) transparent heat chamber. The temperature inside the chamber was increased gradually as a step function to a maximum of 350C, which was maintained for 3 h. Thereafter the temperature was allowed to decrease steadily down to the ambient temperature. This one-day heat event caused a significant decrease in individual grain mass (IGM), grain set and grain yield. As compared to the unheated control, exposure to H1 and H2 decreased grain yields by 18 and 19% in Excalibur, by 19 and 22% in Krichauff, by 21 and 26% in Gladius and by 35 and 30% in Janz. There was a strong correlation between wheat grain yield and IGM at maturity (r = 0.70). As compared to the unheated control, heat stress caused only a small reduction in grain set in the floret a (0.3%) and b (2.3%) but there was a significant reduction in grain set in florets c (16.5%) and d (41.4%). The results clearly indicate that a single day heat-stress event during the reproductive development of wheat can cause a significant reduction in grain yield.ASM Hasim Talukder, Gurjeet Gill, Glenn McDonald, Peter Hayman and Bronya Alexande
Network Reconstruction for SIS Epidemics in Heterogeneous Populations
No full textExact network reconstruction from observations of the SIS process in discrete time would be very useful if possible, with implications for tracking the spread of infectious diseases, trends and news on social media. It could provide estimates for the strength of links in a network and the contribution of individual nodes to the spread of an epidemic within a network as well as the underlying structure. This Thesis provides a method for evaluating heterogeneous parameters where each node has a randomly distributed curing probability and each link between two nodes has a randomly distributed infection probability. The parameters are computed via maximum likelihood estimation using between 102 and 104 observations of the SIS process on networks ranging in size from 15 to 55 nodes, for both directed Erdős-Rényi and Barabási-Albert graphs. We vary the network size to demonstrate that for a fixed level of accuracy, the number of required observations increases exponentially with the number of nodes for both the whole network and a subset of links and nodes. We further demonstrate that it may require fewer observations to reconstruct certain nodes based on the degree of the node or reconstruct links based on the degree of the node to which the link is incident. Additionally, if we interpret 106 or more observations as the number of required observations where reconstruction becomes infeasible, a network size of 500 would be infeasible for reconstructing the full network and the approximate limit for partial network reconstruction. The Thesis is extended to look at the SI and SIR models, achieving a similar exponential increase in the number of observations required as the network size increases, for a fixed error.Electrical Engineering | Network Architectures and Service
Who feels resentful?
No full textThis chapter investigates the segments of the population that harbor feelings of resentment. Utilizing data from the 2021 RepResent cross-sectional survey, we explore the distribution of resentment across five dimensions: gender, age, education, vote choice, and region of residence. The findings indicate significant variations in resentment levels among different age groups, but in an unexpected direction. Specifically, resentment is highest among the middle-aged population rather than younger individuals. Additionally, there are remarkable differences across vote choices, with protest voters exhibiting higher levels of resentment compared to other voters. However, no substantial differences are observed when considering gender, educational levels, or regions of residence. These results highlight that individuals who are marginalized within the political landscape do not necessarily experience a sense of exclusion. Moreover, they reveal that protest voters experience a profound sense of exclusion from the political system.Full Tex
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